eerie

Meanings

Plural: eeries

Adjective Satellite

• suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious
  • "an eerie feeling of deja vu"
• inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening
  • "an uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"
  • "an eerie midnight howl"

Adj

• Inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way; strange, weird.
• Frightened, timid.

Noun

• An eerie creature or thing.
• Alternative spelling of eyrie.

Synonyms

aberrant, abnormal, alien, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, bizarre, chilling, creepy, curious, deviant, discrepant, eerie, eery, eldritch, errant, exceptional, extraordinary, fey, forby, freak, freakish, freaky, fremd, frightening, funny, grim, heteroclite, hinky, incongruitous, incongruous, irregular, kooky, monstrous, nonstandard, odd, offputting, out of the ordinary, outlandish, outré, peculiar, quaint, queer, queer as a clockwork orange, queer as a coot, queer as a nine bob note, queer as a three dollar bill, queer as Dick's hatband, rare, rum, rummy, scary, selcouth, seld, singular, sinister, spooky, strange, trippy, uncanny, uncommon, unconventional, unearthly, unexpected, unreasonable, unsettling, unusual, unwonted, weird, weirdsome, yampy

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